Category: Issues

Issue 14 – Lessons from Latin America: Neoliberalism, Crises and Social Struggles

Winter Spring 2006 Issue Editors: Aylin Topal, Burak Sönmezer, Ecehan Balta, Fuat Özdinç, Galip Yalman, Pınar Bedirhanoğlu, Şebnem Oğuz The Oppressed and Politics in Latin America: At the Beginnings of a New History Çiğdem Çidamlı This paper examines the dynamics of…

Issue 13 – Contemporary Marxist Currents

Winter 2005 Issue Editors: Burak Gürel, Cenk Saraçoğlu, E. Ahmet Tonak, Erkal Ünal, Fatih Yaşlı, Mustafa Bayram Mısır, Nazım Güveloğlu Contours of Anglo-Saxon Marxism Alex Callinicos This paper evaluates the place of Marxist theory in the Anglo-Saxon world. Starting with the…

Issue 12 – Political Parties in Turkey

Fall 2004 Issue Editors: Ali Ekber Doğan (Koordinatör), E. Atilla Aytekin, Mustafa Bayram Mısır, Mustafa Şener, Sevilay Kaygalak The Impacts of the Transformation of Liberal Democracy on Political Parties in the Neoliberal Age Nazım Güveloğlu In the recent decades, parallel to…

Issue 11 – The Struggle for Hegemony in Social Sciences

Winter – Spring – Summer 2011 Issue Editor: Beycan Mura The Distinctive Features of US Imperialism Haluk Gerger This article, after granting that the US as an aggressive and self-centered country is not essentially different from its predecessors, argues that…

Issue 10 – Capitalism and Democracy

Summer – Fall 2003 Issue Editor: Sonay Bayramoğlu A Critique of the “Equality-Blind” Democratisation Programme of the Bourgeoisie Metin Özuğurlu The paper attempts at revealing a basic paradox characterizing Turkish politics: On the one hand the society is marked by…

Issue 9 – From Regulation to Re-regulation: Restructuring of Turkish Capitalism and the Changing Role of State

Winter-Spring 2003 Issue Editor: Demet Dinler The Critique of the “Strong State Tradition” Thesis in Turkey Demet Dinler In the analysis of state/society relations the dominant paradigm in Turkey is the one which takes state and society as two separate…

Issue 8 – Debate on Classes

Issue Editor: Mustafa Bayram Mısır Marx and Class Tülin Öngen This article intends to propose a theoretical insight into the marxist class analysis. Therefore, it mainly attempts to indicate the distinctiveness of Marxist class theory, through an examination of most…